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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

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The issue of syntactic development is one of the most central to bothlinguistics and applied linguistics. Assuming no detailed backgroundknowledge of linguistics, this book is an introduction to the acquisitionof syntax in a second language. The text builds a coherent picture ofsecond language grammatical development by showing the interactions betweenthe syntactic, processing, and functional/discourse approaches, and looksat how and why these different approaches give different results.

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